Pointy shoulders and pointy heels

I love these crazy boots, but they're so hard to match to most of my clothes. Technically they don't match this shirt, but I liked the combination anyway, especially with the coordinated spikes on the shoulders and heels. I've tried to wear these boots several times since their inaugural wearing, but I just wasn't satisfied with any of those outfit photos until now.

Striped shirt: Urban Outfitters

Black faux leather skirt: H&M

Black cardigan: gift from my aunt, from Macy's

Pointy boots: Solestruck

Sunglasses: Oscar de la Renta from TJ Maxx

Silver earrings: gift from a friend

Spider necklace: Bauble Bar

Silver bracelet: won in a giveaway

Spikes and stripes (Round two)

These pants (also worn here) make a big statement, and for this outfit I decided to skip a simple top and wear a shirt that's just as interesting as the pants. Quite a few of you expressed an appreciation of the shoulders on this shirt when I wore it on Halloween, so I decided to wear it again on a non-costumey day. And then, just because this outfit already had so much going on, I piled on the jewelry as well. (Because if you're going to go over the top, you might as well make it count, right?)

If you take outfit photos, it doesn't take too long to figure out which poses work best for which outfits. If I'm wearing a skirt I'll gladly face the camera head-on, but if I'm wearing pants I will almost always pose at an angle. I love my wide hips, but they look even wider in photos when I wear pants (especially wide-leg pants like these), and I don't have a problem trying to make myself look a bit slimmer in pictures. Do any of you have posing tricks that you use? What are they?

Top: Urban Outfitters

Jacket: Forever 21 brand, from Jen Loves Kev's closet sale

Pants: Anthropologie

Hat: Fred Meyer

Earrings: bought in China

Bracelets: H&M and In Pink

Spikes and stripes

If you can't wear a shirt with pointy shoulders on Halloween, when can you wear it? (Maybe to a Lady Gaga concert?) I've had this shirt for a year or two - I found it at Urban Outfitters, and grabbed it without realizing what the shoulders looked like. I just liked the stripes. I bought it anyway, and every other time I've worn it I've pinned the spiky shoulders down. But yesterday I thought - why not? I took off the safety pins, and wore this shirt as nature...er, Urban Outfitters...intended it.

Shirt: Urban Outfitters

Jacket: Forever 21 brand, from Jen's closet sale

Skirt: thrifted

Shoes: Lulu's

Hat and scarf: Fred Meyer

Necklace: Bauble Bar

Bracelet: InPink